Description

🏏 CricPulse – Premium Cricket Magazine WordPress Theme

CricPulse is a premium WordPress theme built specifically for cricket news websites, sports blogs, and digital magazines. With a modern hero slider, AJAX-powered category tabs, breaking news ticker, complete Customizer control, and built-in SEO — you can launch a professional cricket news site in minutes without coding.

View Live Demo: https://your-demo-link.com
Buy Now: https://your-store.com/product/cricpulse

🚀 KEY FEATURES

🏏 Cricket-First Magazine Design
Hero slider with dot navigation, autoplay, and LIVE badge. Breaking news ticker with custom category filtering. AJAX category tabs (Latest / Popular / This Week) that filter posts without page reload. Photo grid in sidebar showing 4 latest post thumbnails. Trending section showing popular posts by comment count.

🎨 Full WordPress Customizer Control
50+ settings to customize colors, fonts, layout, header, footer, social links, and sidebar — all with live preview. No coding required.

📱 Fully Responsive & Mobile Ready
Mobile-first design with hamburger menu, mobile category navigation, and mobile search. Layout and slider adjust perfectly on all screen sizes.

🔍 SEO Optimized
Schema.org structured data (Organization, Article, BreadcrumbList) helps Google understand your content. Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags for social sharing. Canonical URLs prevent duplicate content. Lazy loading for faster page loads. WordPress robots meta tags included.

📬 Built-in Newsletter Subscribe
AJAX-powered email subscribe form in sidebar. Title, description, placeholder, and button text all customizable via Customizer. Emails stored in WordPress options for easy export.

⚙️ CUSTOMIZER SECTIONS (9 Sections, 50+ Controls)

🔑 License Activation
Enter purchase key to unlock all theme options. One license = one domain.

📌 Header Settings
Logo upload (responsive with srcset), sticky header toggle, search bar show/hide, nav height control, secondary navigation, mobile category nav, mobile search, ticker speed, custom logo text, header border.

🏠 Homepage Settings
Hero slider with category select, slides count (1-6), autoplay speed, side stories (0-4), custom title. 6 category sections with individual titles. AJAX tabs (Latest/Popular/Week). Single or multi section layout. Post meta and views toggle.

📐 Layout Settings
Scroll reveal animations toggle. Container width (960-1600px). Sidebar width (260-500px).

🎨 Color Settings (8 Colors)
Accent, background (main), background 2, background 3, card, text, muted text, border — all independent.

🔤 Typography Settings
20 heading fonts + 20 body fonts from Google Fonts. 9 font size controls: body (12-24px), h1 (20-60px), h2 (18-48px), h3 (14-36px), hero title (18-52px), nav (11-22px), post title (12-28px).

📂 Sidebar Settings
Trending posts count (3-10), photos grid show/hide with custom title, recommended category, subscribe form with full customization.

🌐 Social Links
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn — set URLs in Customizer, automatically shown in header and footer.

📄 Footer Settings
Brand text (two parts), description, 3 columns with show/hide, social icons, tagline, copyright text.

🔤 GOOGLE FONTS (40 Total)

Heading Fonts (20):
Montserrat (default), Poppins, Oswald, Raleway, Playfair Display, Roboto Condensed, Archivo, Work Sans, Plus Jakarta Sans, Outfit, Manrope, DM Sans, Figtree, Nunito, Rubik, Barlow, Inter Tight, Epilogue, Sora, Bebas Neue.

Body Fonts (20):
Inter (default), Open Sans, Roboto, Lato, Source Sans Pro, Nunito, Rubik, PT Sans, Noto Sans, Work Sans, DM Sans, Manrope, Figtree, Plus Jakarta Sans, Outfit, Mulish, Merriweather, EB Garamond, Lexend, IBM Plex Sans.

📰 HEADING STRUCTURE (H1-H6) — SEO OPTIMIZED

Correct heading hierarchy helps search engines understand your page structure. CricPulse follows proper H1-H2-H3-H4 order on every page type:

Homepage:
H1 → Hero slider featured post title (only one visible at a time)
H2 → Category section titles (LATEST NEWS, etc.)
H3 → AJAX tab labels (Latest / Popular / Week)
H4 → Post card titles

Single Post:
H1 → Post title with Article schema markup
H2 → In-content subheadings (from WordPress editor)
H3 → Comments section heading

Archive / Category / Tag / Search:
H1 → Page title (e.g. “Category: Cricket”)
H2 → Each post title in listing

Page:
H1 → Page title
H2 → In-content subheadings

Sidebar:
H2 → Trending Now, Photos, Recommended Posts, Subscribe

Footer:
H3 → Column headings (FORMATS, TEAMS, MORE)

Login Page:
H1 → Panel title (Welcome Back / Join CricPulse / Reset Password)
H2 → Brand tagline

404 Page:
H1 → “404” heading

✅ Schema.org Article markup on single posts
✅ BreadcrumbList schema on all pages
✅ Organization schema on homepage
✅ No duplicate H1 tags
✅ No missing H1 tags
✅ Proper H1 → H2 → H3 → H4 ordering

📋 REQUIREMENTS

– WordPress: 5.0+
– PHP: 7.4+
– Browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (latest versions)

📦 CHANGELOG

Version 1.0 — Initial Release
– Cricket magazine theme with hero slider, categories, and sidebar
– Breaking news ticker with category filter and speed control
– AJAX category tabs (Latest / Popular / This Week)
– 50+ WordPress Customizer controls across 9 sections
– 8 customizable colors with live preview
– 40 Google Fonts (20 heading + 20 body) with 9 size controls
– Newsletter subscribe form with AJAX and email storage
– Schema.org structured data (Organization, Article, BreadcrumbList)
– Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags
– Canonical URLs and WordPress robots meta
– Lazy loading for all images
– License activation system (HMAC + remote API)
– Login/Register/Password reset page template
– Semantic HTML5: main, article, nav, footer

For support: your-email@example.com